I first noticed my impatience over twenty years ago while smoking outside a writers’ workshop at one of the older, ivy-covered University of Toronto colleges.

A fellow rolled up in his two-wheeled transport and tsk-tsked theatrically:

“I can’t beLIEVE this building doesn’t have a RAMP.”

If not for his bratty pomposity, I might’ve refrained from snapping back:

“Yeah, how dare those long-dead Victorian architects design this joint without consulting you?”

Old and tired? Demanding a burger at Woolworth’s lunch counter. New hotness? Closing down a beloved burger joint because the counter’s not low enough.

That just happened to Ford’s Real Burgers in Sacramento. Meet Scott N. Johnson, a quadriplegic who fancies himself the Rosa Parks of the Hoveround set. Outside agitator Johnson filed an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit against the family owned restaurant, claiming the eatery wasn’t “accessible.”

Despite testimony to the contrary from a longtime customer in a wheelchair, Ford’s lost the suit and duly shut down, unable to afford the renovations required to bring the restaurant into compliance.

Hey, maybe the owner could’ve gotten a loan or even an outright gift from his persecutor: Since 2003, “Johnson has filed several thousand lawsuits, collecting a net income of more than $2 million annually in statutory penalties.”